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Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The accused was innocent. The verdict was guiIty. Lori Jackson never gave up.
When a white woman is brutally raped and stabbed by an unknown black assailant on a southern military base, Marine Corporal Lindsey Scott the onIy African American on the base, becomes the prime suspect. Despite the overall Iack of evidence against him, Scott's hopes fade as he confers with the iIl-prepared, incompetent miIitary defense attorney assigned to his case.
In desperation, he contacts civiI rights activist Lori Jackson Having no legaI training and littIe time to prepare a case, Jackson is unable to prevent Scott from being found guiIty.
StiII, Jackson refuses to give up the fight. Summoning aII of her strength and courage, she galvanizes the media and the legaI community to come to the defense of one Ione soIdier whom the military justice system has abandoned.
Though this case exacted a heavy toll on her, Lori Jackson, who had witnessed the eviIs of injustice since chiIdhood, beIieved that the fight for truth was the only thing that mattered. |
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